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Lunchbox Love: Quinoa, Chickpea, and Capsicum Salad with a Lime-Honey Dressing
I have a confession: as much as I love salad even I get bored of the same leaf, tomato, legume and antipasto combination. This often leads to me resorting to my next option: cottage cheese and crackers...
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Lunchbox Love: Roast Pumpkin, Mushroom, and Brown Rice Salad with Soy-Sesame...
This salad is absolutely delicious. Please forgive my immodesty, but I have a deep and abiding love for the soy-sesame combination, and for anything with roasted pumpkin in it. Not only is this salad...
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Simple Rice-Stuffed Capsicums
I don’t know if I can even really call this a recipe. It was that simple. But since dinner plates were licked clean and I have the extra capsicum tucked carefully into my lunch box for today’s midday...
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Lunchbox Love: Recipe Round-Up and Inspiration
I have fond memories of my school lunches. Peanut butter sandwiches (before good old PB was banned from the schoolyard), Vegemite sandwiches, carrot sticks, muesli bars (my favourites were choc chip or...
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Lunchbox Love: Sweet Potato and Broccoli Frittata
My lunch box has come back to life! After my post last week I gave serious consideration to what I felt like for lunch this week. I knew that it would have to be filling enough to keep me away from the...
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Lunchbox Love: Springtime Beetroot, Asparagus and Feta Salad
Saturdays in Spring call me outside. They whisper of the delights of the increasing heat of the sunshine and the new green shoots poking out of the earth. They tell me to put on my prettiest dress...
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Lunchbox Love: Blueberry, Chickpea, and Kale Salad
Warm summer days with plenty of sunshine means tables laden with produce every Saturday at the farmer’s markets. Which, naturally, means that I am enticed into buying beautiful vegetables that I don’t...
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Garden Vegetable and Olive Pasta Bake (gluten free)
Reason number 40,598,235 why I love Chris: he loves pasta as much as I do. In fact, one of the first things I ever cooked for him was some sort of tomato and pasta dish. We ate it sitting cross-legged...
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Charred Corn, Capsicum, and Quinoa Salad
You need to make this salad. You need to make this salad because no one really wants another iceberg lettuce concoction on the buffet table at Christmas time (except the one your Aunty makes because it...
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Sweet Potato and Cottage Cheese Fritters (gluten free)
I wanted the first recipe of 2014 to be something healthy, something nourishing, something wholesome. Don’t get me wrong, I have been eating cookies and lollies like a madwoman – the evil of proximity...
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Quick Creamy Tomato Soup
As soon as I feel the slightest indication of rain or cooler, wetter weather moving in over our sun-bleached plains and golden crisp grass I insist on getting into comfort food cooking. I think I might...
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Currently…Haloumi, Date, and Almond Salad
Here at Thoroughly Nourished Life I am currently: Thinking: I wish I could have a vacation to Los Angeles in the early 90s. With Richard Gere. At the Beverly Wiltshire. With a credit card I didn’t have...
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Spicy Thai-Inspired Kale Salad
The past three weekends have been majorly food-centred: weddings, birthdays, Easter…to be truthful it’s been going on for the past two months…or maybe there hasn’t been a break since Christmas… In...
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Chris’s Fried Rice
Sixteen months ago something wonderful, someone wonderful, happened to me. You see him quite regularly around here: the tall, ginger man with a talent for technology, making bacon disappear, z-snapping...
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Curried Carrot, Lentil, and Coconut Soup
The act of making soup in the middle of the week is a perfect relaxant, no drugs required. Even though a bowl of hearty nourishing soup can take just 45 minutes from chopping board to table you feel...
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Apple, Celery, and Walnut Salad with Mustard Dressing
This salad is a fancy plate salad. If we were at a restaurant where you could order this salad I would probably be wearing a dress, and perhaps a hat. In my fancy lady fantasies I am always wearing a...
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Quinoa, Olive, Zucchini and Rocket (gluten free, vegan)
Do you ever hold onto things that you know you need to let go of to live a healthy, authentic, and truly nourished life? Something that you know isn’t helping you to be the healthiest and happiest...
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Parsley, Chickpea, Avocado and Greens Salad
It’s a little bit unconventional, but one of my favourite comfort foods is salad. Before you write me off as crazy, let me explain. When I am under the weather all I want is a big chubby salad. I’m not...
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Roasted Beetroot, Feta, and Thyme Frittata
On Monday I stepped outside the bounds of my comfort zone and tried something new, or at least something that I hadn’t done in a very long time. I took a chance and threw myself into a way of moving...
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Moroccan Roasted Pumpkin and Quinoa Salad
Today I read a wonderful article on The Chalkboard about breaking away from healthy habits. The author was not talking about abandoning all sensibilities of health and just living free and large, but...
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